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S. SHETTER.

OPEN L'INK.'

No. 251,958. v Patented Jan. 3,1882;

WITNESSES INVENTOR ATTORNEYS.

j U IT-ED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SOLOMON enemies, or NEW CUMBERLAND, wnsr VIRGINIA, assreuon OF ONE-HALF TO THOMAS J. GORLIOK, ELMER J. snnrrnn, AND ANDREW M. snnrrnn, A L OF SAME PLACE.

OPEN LINK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 251,958, dated January 3, 1882,

7 Application filed November 4, 1881. (N0 model.)

. proved link. Fig. 2 is a plan View, and Fig.

3 is an edge elevation, of the link.

The link is formed of the parts A and B, which are oppositely bent to form the books a la, which hooks are diagonally flattened or faced to fit upon each other, as clearly shown in Fig. 3. The straight end of the part A is flattened at right angles to the plane of the hook, as shown at c, and this flattened portion is perforated. The blunt end of the part B is bent upward, as shown at 0, so as to stand in the same plane with the hook l1,and is reduced in size for a short distance, so as to pass through the perforation in the flattened portion 0 Of the part A a sufficient distance to be headed over the flattened portion, as shown at d, to hold the two parts of the link together, but not rigidly, the part A being adapted to swing on the reduced portion of the partB as on a pivot for opening and closing the link.

Having thus described rnyinvention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- In a connecting-link, the combination, with the part B, provided with the hook b and the upturned end 6, of the part A, provided with the hook wand the eye 0, the said hooks being flattened diagonally, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

SOLOMON SHETTER. Witnesses:

J. O. LINDSAY, W. H. BEEBOUT. 

